The Trump administration secured a major legal victory Monday as the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 to pause a lower court order that had blocked the deportation of illegal aliens to third countries. The ruling gives the administration broader authority to deport individuals whose home nations refuse to accept them.
Under the decision, the Trump administration is no longer required to give illegal aliens the chance to challenge removal to countries other than their origin—a move that could clear the path for thousands of deportations, particularly of criminal aliens.
The case stemmed from a deportation flight involving eight violent illegal aliens, including Cuban and Vietnamese nationals, who were removed to South Sudan after the African nation agreed to take them in. The individuals had been convicted of serious crimes including homicide, kidnapping, and sexual assault of minors.
A federal judge attempted to block the flight, arguing that the Biden-era practice of allowing aliens to contest deportation to third countries must remain in place. The judge ordered the criminal aliens to be kept in U.S. custody pending further legal review.
But the Trump administration pushed back, taking the fight to the Supreme Court. Solicitor General John Sauer warned that activist rulings like the one from the lower court were making it harder to remove the worst offenders.
“The United States is facing a crisis of illegal immigration, in no small part because many aliens most deserving of removal are often the hardest to remove,” Sauer wrote in his appeal.
The Supreme Court’s ruling also clears the way for the deportation of Alexander Alfredo Palacios Guevara, a Salvadoran national with convictions for murder and sexual abuse, and suspected ties to the violent Surenos gang. Guevara had previously received special protections shielding him from deportation to El Salvador, but under the ruling, he can now be removed to a third country willing to accept him.
The decision marks another key victory for President Trump’s immigration agenda, reaffirming his administration’s authority to deal decisively with violent criminal aliens—even when their home countries refuse to cooperate.
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